Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa: in Japanese Army Air Force RTAF-CAF-IPSF Service (Schiffer Military History Book) [Paperback]

Richard M. Bueschel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1995 | Series: Schiffer Military History Book

Reknowned Japanese aircraft historians Richard Bueschel revises and updates his classic series of books on Japanese Naval and Army Air Force aircraft of World War II. The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa is presented in this volume. All variations and markings are covered in this the second in a projected multi-volume series. The first volume in Bueschel's series covers the Mitsubishi A6M-1/2/2-N Zero-Sen(available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (August 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887408044
• ISBN-13: 978-0887408045
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing in English on the Hayabusa, July 28, 1999

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This review is from: Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa: in Japanese Army Air Force RTAF-CAF-IPSF Service (Schiffer Military History Book) (Paperback)

The Hayabusa was the Japanese army's equivalent of the famed Zero fighter, and was often mistaken for it in the early months of the war. (By the AVG Flying Tigers, among others.) This is a reprint of Dick Bueschel's 1970 paperback from Arco. Unfortunately it wasn't updated to include more recent knowledge, but it remains the best thing available in English on this remarkable (for 1941) aircraft.

Much the same applies to Bueschel's other titles in this series, and especially to the less-famous aircraft (pretty much everything except the Zero, which has been well-researched and written about in recent years).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nakajima's Ki 43 Hayabusa (Oscar), the JAAF's own Zero, September 6, 2002

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D. P. Broer (LEIDEN, ZH Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa: in Japanese Army Air Force RTAF-CAF-IPSF Service (Schiffer Military History Book) (Paperback)

Up till a few decades ago the Mitsubishi 'Zero' , though not the only, certainly was the best known Japanese WW2 fighter, so many allied pilots believed they fought 'Zeros' all over Asia, e.g. the 'Flying Tigers'. The JAAF however had it's own 'Zero': the Nakajima Ki.43 Hayabusa (allied code name 'Oscar').
This plane is the subject of three remarkebly similair books: this Osprey/Aircam no.13, the ARCO/Aircam no.15, and the Schiffer Books 'Nakajima Ki.43 Hayabusa I-III', the second volume in their series about Japanese aircraft. How come? The British book is the original, the ARCO/Aircam is the Americam edition of it and the Schiffer Books' version is the revised and updated edition of the original. Together with the 'Aircraft in Profile no.46' (to be found in 'Aircraft in Profile vol.2') and a Hayabusa book by Merriam Press they form pretty much everything that has been published about this plane in the English language. It is done in the usual Aircam-style: 50 pages crammed with black-and-white photographs, 8 pages of colour art and a text portion of 8 pages in his case.
A must for the modeller, lots of painting schemes can be done with this book at hand. If and when you're fluent in Polish you can buy two Polish publications about the Nakajima Ki-43 hayabusa as well (AJ-Press "Monografie Lotnicze" and Ace Publications "Pod-Lupa"). If your knowledge of languages extends to Japanese there is a wealth of other sources, amongst them three different editions of the Bunrin-do's Famous Aicraft of the World series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly disappointing, July 12, 2007

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Michael D. Richard (Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa: in Japanese Army Air Force RTAF-CAF-IPSF Service (Schiffer Military History Book) (Paperback)

The books in this series are probably the best single volume sources on these aircraft in English. As such they are almost indispensible. Unfortunately, they contain none of the excellent color profiles of the original Aircam volumes of which these are reprints. They are not even reprints; they are copies. These volumes even include the black-and-white

plan views that refer back to the color section, now useless, as there is no color section.

Moreover, the original Aircam volumes can often be had on Ebay, and at less cost. The books in this series could have been superb, as they are, merely disappointing.